About the Book
This sharply observed saga
makes utterly real the hope and heartbreak of a cold, splintered world
on the brink of a terrible war. A thousand years earlier, the Unmade,
souls of the dead, shook the land and decimated the Sull, a legendary
ancient people. The Blindwall, breached by power unleashed by
enigmatic, powerful young Ash March, no longer will hold back the
Unmade from the land of the living, so the Sull are readying for a war
that must inevitably come.
Across the land, clans oblivious to
the threat vie for dominance. Dangerous, arrogant clan chiefs urge
their followers to frenzied battles, killing one another and plotting
against rivals. And a darker threat comes from Spire Vanis, a city with
a black heart of evil, whose rulers have long sought to control the
outlying clanholds, and whose new protector, Marafice Eye, is bent on
conquest.
As Ash trains to become the great mystic warrior
predicted by the Sull, Raif Sevrance, who loves her and has been exiled
from his clan, seeks to discover where he belongs. The Rift, a deep
crevice in the barren land of the Want, draws him. And that puts him in
grave danger, for the Rift is said also to be a crack between the world
of the living and that of the Unmade.
Raif, Ash, and those
whose fates are tied to them must follow their own paths with courage
and faith in themselves and their goals, lest all be lost when the war
with the Endlords is come.
